{"id":147727,"date":"2025-09-19T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147727\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:49:09","slug":"rangers-double-whammy-and-celtic-penalty-controversy-get-sfa-verdicts-as-refs-split-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/147727\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers double whammy and Celtic penalty controversy get SFA verdicts as refs split panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goals for and against Russell Martin’s side and the late penalty for the champions at Kilmarnock have been reviewed by the panel<\/p>\n

16:49, 19 Sep 2025Updated 16:54, 19 Sep 2025<\/p>\n

Lewis Mayo of Kilmarnock handles the ball(Image: Stuart Wallace\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

The decision to allow Lawrence Shankland’s firstgoal to stand against Rangers<\/a> then disallowing the hosts’ equaliser have been deemed incorrect by the KMI panel.<\/p>\n

And Celtic<\/a>‘s last gasp penalty at Kilmarnock has also been marked down as a blunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Derek McInnes’ side left Ibrox with all three points thanks to Shankland’<\/a>s double, although Gers claimed he handled in the build up to his first.<\/p>\n

Now the KMI panel has reviewed the incident and declared that ref Steven McLean was wrong not to blow up, while VAR should have then recommended an on-field review and the goal then disallowed.<\/p>\n

The notes read: “The panel unanimously agreed that the on-field decision was incorrect. The panel highlighted VAR was incorrect not to intervene to recommend an OFR and the goal should have been disallowed for a handball in the APP.”<\/p>\n

Lawrence Shankland’s alleged handball(Image: BBC Scotland)<\/p>\n

The panel also decided that the Light Blues’ equaliser through Derek Cornelius should have stood after Thelo Aasgaard was penalised for a foul on debutant Hearts keeper Alexander Schwolow.<\/p>\n

“The majority (2:1) of the panel deemed the on-field decision of foul on the goalkeeper tobe incorrect. Two panel members felt a VAR intervention should have taken place andthe goal should have stood following an OFR. One panel member felt that the onfielddecision was correct and VAR was correct not to intervene.”<\/p>\n

Under fire boss Russell Martin revealed after the game that Mo Diomande protested his innocence after having a late penalty awarded against him for a trip on Harry Milne, which Jack Butland saved only for Shankland to convert the rebound.<\/p>\n

Theo Aasgaard fouls Alexander Schwolow<\/p>\n

However, the panel backed McLean on that one: “The majority (2:1) of the panel deemed the on-field decision of penalty kick being awarded correct. One panel member felt that VAR should have intervened and recommended an OFR for an overturn of the penalty kick.”<\/p>\n

Controversy reigned at Rugby Park the following day as Lewis Mayo handled after a James Forrest shot was deflecte donto his arm via a deflection off teammate Robbie Deas.<\/p>\n

John Beaton played on before being called to the monitor. He reversed his decision and pointed to the spot, allowing Kelechi Iheanacho to mark his Celtic debut with a dramatic winner.<\/p>\n

The majority of the panel backed Beaton’s iniital decision: The majority (2:1) of the panel deemed the on-field decision (before VAR intervention) to be correct. Two panel members felt the VAR intervention was incorrect and a penaltykick should not have been awarded for a handball. One panel member felt VAR was correct to intervene and the decision of a penalty kick for handball after review was correct.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goals for and against Russell Martin’s side and the late penalty for the champions at Kilmarnock have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2817,63797,218,18670,68014,55591,68013,2714,64065,8058,101,18963,56,54,55,50535],"class_list":["post-147727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-celtic-fc","tag-derek-mcinnes","tag-football","tag-james-forrest","tag-john-beaton","tag-kelechi-iheanacho","tag-lawrence-shankland","tag-rangers-fc","tag-scottish-football-association","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports","tag-thelo-aasgaard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-var"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}